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Resolved Assign multiple categories to one article

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  1. Philip
    Philip
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  3. Saturday, 19 August 2017
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I am using form2content 6.12 and Joomla 3.6.5.

I know this question has been asked already but I still did not find a suitable answer.

I want to assign multiple categories to one article. Basically I am looking for a solution to filter articles by different tags. All the plugins suggested were either commercial or out of date.

Is there some way you can do it anyway? I have heard about a solution using aliases, how would one go about this?
  1. category selection
  2. multi-select
  3. filter
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F2C webmaster
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Hi Philip,

The answer is NO. Joomla architecture doesn't allow one article to belong to multiple categories.

So you can approach the problem differently. If your articles have properties (or tags) you want to filter on those. Category is than one of many properties like author etc. In Form2Content we treat certain fields as properties (think single and multiselect lists). Using F2C Search you can then search on those properties (example: https://www.safari-planner.com check te left drop-downs).

Now I also wanted to display category blog layout based on a predefined set of properties so we created Filtered Article lists in F2C Search.

Example: https://www.safari-planner.com/botswana/groepsreizen. Properties are: safari, Botswana and group... the read more goes to the Joomla article.

Please read more about this here:
http://documentation.form2content.com/f2c-extensions/f2c-search
http://documentation.form2content.com/f2c-extensions/f2c-search/106-filtered-article-lists

Please do realise there are limitations. For instance, we do not build our own breadcrumb but always fall back to the Joomla menu structure for you article navigation.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Patrick
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Philip
Philip
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Thank you, helped a lot. Did it through tags now though.
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